The Nation: Wagons Around the President

Tapes of White House conversations made public for the first time at the
Watergate cover-up trial last week, as well as portions of other
conversations edited out of earlier White House transcripts, show that
Richard Nixon planned and participated in cover-up acts almost from the
beginning, then grew increasingly suspicious of his aides as he sought
frantically to protect himself. Some excerpts:

GRANTING PARDONS

April 14, 1973. President Nixon, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.

P. You get them full pardons. That's what they have to have, John ... Do
you agree?